Feature Comparison Chart

Numerous optimization methods have been applied. It's clean, compact, extremely
fast-loading, but still powerful and efficient.

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Cross Browser Support

Rich Text Editor for .NET supports all Internet Explorer versions from 6.0 up on Windows,
and Chrome, Mozilla 1.4, Opera 9.x, Safari (1.3+) or any other browser
with an equivalent gecko layout engine on any platform where these browsers are
available. This includes Macintosh and Linux.

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Advanced file upload function

We integrate a hi-performance
ASP.NET upload component - Ajax uploader into Rich Text Editor. Ajax
Uploader allows you to select and upload multiple files at once. It also supports
client side validation of the file size/type before uploading.

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Format Painter

The Format Painter takes the formatting from one piece of text and pastes it onto
content you select. This is handy when you have a combination of formats on something,
like a size, color and style, and want to apply them to another item, without having
to apply them individually.

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HTML5 Support

HTML5 will be the new standard for HTML. Major browsers support many of the new
HTML5 elements and APIs. RichTextEditor is providing support for various HTML5 elements,
attributes, and values.

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Show Rulers

RichTextEditor can display rulers, one along the top and one along the left side
of the editor window. Rulers allow you easiluy align text, graphics, tables, and
other elements in a document.

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Quick Style

RichTextEditor 8.0 has a fast and easy way to save a new style. Say you spent some
time formatting text just the way you want it and you want to save that format as
a style so you can use it again in your current document.

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Paste clean HTML from Microsoft Word

When text is pasted from Microsoft Word allot of unnecessary word specific markup
is carried across. This can result in web pages that take an unnecessarily long
time to download. The Paste from Word button solves this by removing word markup
before pasting the text into your page.

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RTF to HTML, HTML to RTF

With RichTextEditor you can easily convert an HTML document into an RTF file and RTF
file into HTML or XHTML document.

It does not open a new window, instead it will resize to fit the browser screen.
Edit in full screen mode, maximizing your available space.

Unlimited levels of the undo/redo

Many of the other editors on the market cannot undo or redo certain actions, and
certain table operations - such as cell merge or column deletion. Rich Text Editor
has a new custom undo/redo implementation to make you can now safely undo those
actions.

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CSS-based Skinning

Rich Text Editor provides several built in skins that are ready to use. Developers can
completely change the appearance of the toolbar and the dialogs by simply modifying
the supplied classes and images.

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Style Builder Dialog Box

With Style builder dialog box you can apply CSS style attributes directly to any
HTML elements on your Web page.

Content management with templates

The basic idea behind a Content Management System (CMS) is to separate the management
of content from design. Rich Text Editor allows the site designer to easily create and
establish templates to give the site a uniform look. Templates may be modified when
desired.

Use MaxHTMLLength or MaxTextLength to Protect Your Database

If you tried to insert a record whose text length is greater than allowed by your
table, an error will be reported. To prevent this type of error from occurring,
developers can use MaxHTMLLength or MaxTextLength in the Rich Text Editor to limit the
length of the user’s input.

Multi-language support

All labels, buttons, tooltips and messages are located in external javascript language files, so
that the language of the editor can be switched with a single property. You can
also create a new language in a matter of minutes.

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Support complete page editing (from <HTML> to </HTML>)

Rich Text Editor allows you to edit a full HTML page, including <title>, <!DOCTYPE...>
and some other options. You can also insert Form elements (checkbox, button, textarea,
etc.) and modify certain properties of the element.

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Enter Mode: Paragraph or LineBreak?

Rich Text Editor can be configured to define the behaviour of the ENTER KEY. You
use <p>, <br /> or <div> tags when you press enter. In either
mode <br> tags can be created by using shift+enter.

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Universal and Virtual keyboard

Virtual Keyboard does not require changes to language settings of your system and
even speeds up the entire text input process for your customers. It lets your native
speaking clients to access your web resources from any location in the world without
changing national keyboard layouts and fonts on their machines.

Support HTML code indentation and Tags appear in lower case

Rich Text Editor displays nicely indented code in the HTML mode and the generating HTML
tags and Attributes are in lower case. This is very convenient and important for
the advanced users.

Advanced table manager

Create and modify tables and table cells. Set their border color, alignment, cellspacing
and more! Once you've created a table, simply right click inside of it and use the
handy popup menu to change its attributes. <caption>,<summary>,<thead>,<tfoot>,<th>
tags are supported.

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<div> Box Formatting

<div> boxes offer a much greater ability to control the layout of a page.
With RichTextEditor, you can put any content between <div> tags and then use CSS
to style all sorts of borders, backgrounds, etc.

Use External CSS Files

Editor.ContentCss Property allows you specify the location of the style
sheet that will be used by the editable area. Multiple style sheets are supported.
Example:
ContentCss="example.css,~/portal.css,/default.css

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Image management

Online Image Editor

People that input content on a website are generally not web designers, so most
don't have that design & technical fibre in them. With online image editor,
you can now edit image file with no image editing software to download or install!
Easy drag and drop familiar interface. Resize, change dimensions, scale, crop, add
text, optimize, rotate, flip, mirror and add watermark.

Max Upload Folder size

Max Upload Folder size (Including all subfolders and files. A must have feature
for people who have limited hosting space.) Dynamic display of available free space
in the Upload Folder.Limits the size of your upload folder. If the max is reached
uploads will be disabled.

Max File size upload

You can place limits on the file size, height, and width of images that you and
your users can upload. You can choose to auto-resize the over-sized images. You
may also specify a list of file extensions which are allowed to be uploaded.

With Rich Text Editor, you have the choice of using either a relative or absolute URL.

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Anchor/bookmark support

Anchors can be added, edited and removed anywhere within the content of the editor.
When creating hyperlinks all anchors present in the content will dynamically show
up in the hyperlink window.

Clickable Image Maps

Image maps are pictures with clickable regions also known as "hotspots." When users
click on one of the hotspots, they're directed to the page you designate. RichTextEditor
5.2 lets you easily create image maps to add fun and excitement to a page.

Downloadable files support

You can upload document files, create a link from your HTML content to the document
files (zip files, ppt files...).

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Web Standards Support

Compliant with the web standards, no deprecated tags such as <FONT> anymore

Does your online html editor still use deprecated tags such as <FONT>? Rich Text
Editor will help you build sites that adhere to the latest HTML standards, generates
clean HTML/XHTML code with no deprecated tags.

Rich Text Editor is an award-winning UI control that replaces a standard HTML textarea.
It allows for the rich formatting of text content, including common structural treatments
like lists, formatting treatments like bold and italic text.